| Meaning | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence. |
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| Synonym | distribution |
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| Category | statistics | A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters |
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| Narrower | Poisson distribution | A theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large |
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| binomial distribution, Bernoulli distribution | A theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success |
| equidistribution | A flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence |
| frequency distribution | A distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable |
| normal distribution, Gaussian distribution | A theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance |
| sample distribution, sample, sampling | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population |
| Broader | arrangement, organization, organisation, system | An organized structure for arranging or classifying |
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